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Its Only The World......... Been a hard Been a bad one Been a tough one Been a sad one Its been one of those days that keeps chipping away at my heart. .......Mandisa You have made the hardest decision already. Come visit Teen MOPS and let us help pick up the pieces, together! Maple City Teen MOPS is affiliated with MOPS International. |
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Teen MOPS Steering Team
Links Section
Coordinator:
Mary Ann Bontrager
Creative Acitivities:
Amber Maust
MOPShop:
Ashley Brandau
Dinner Coordinator:
Rachel Miller
MOPPETS Coordinator:
Amanda Knox
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Has Your Life Been Interrupted?
Teen MOPS meets on the 2nd and 4th Monday evenings of most months, begining September 8th, 2008. All of our meetings are FREE. We are open to all pregnant girls ages 12-21 or teenage mothers. We provide a FREE hot dinner, FREE childcare during the meeting and can try to find FREE transportation to and from the meetings, if necessary.
Teen MOPS Mission Statement:
Teen MOPS wants to grow women of faith and build mothers of the future. *Our goal is to offer love, spiritual guidance and emotional support. *To increase tolerance, build relationships and empower each other. *To provide mothering skills and personal improvement.
MOPS stands for Mothers Of Pre-Schoolers. It is a program designed for mothers with children under school age. The young women who come have different lifestyles and different back grounds, but all with similar needs and a shared desire to be the best mothers they can be.
Teen MOPS provides a faith based, supportive and non-judgmental environment where teen mothers can come together with others who are in a similar life situation. Through the relationships formed at Teen MOPS, young moms gain confidence, learn about mothering, gain life skills and can grow personally.
Join the Adventure The MOPS International theme for 2008-09 is Adventures in Mothering. This theme equips moms to learn more about themselves as they go through the adventure of motherhood. They will celebrate and embrace the fun in the experiences, even in the midst of daily mom life that stretches them emotionally and spiritually. The metaphor for Adventures in Mothering is an amusement park. With the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the amusement park, motherhood might feel like a sensory overload. But your MOPS group will enjoy this together and learn more about themselves as women, moms and leaders. The theme verse for Adventures in Mothering is Ephesians 3:18: “…how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.” The dimensions of this verse express how God is with us in our mothering adventure. The knowledge that God is with us on the mothering adventure gives hope. God’s love is big enough for the magnitude of the adventure!
Teen MOPS meets on the second and fourth Monday of each month, September through June.
The MOPShop is a store that is kept on site and can be accessed most meetings.
In our store, we try to have items that would be useful to you as a mother, a teen, a scrapbooker, a student, a woman. We will try to put only brand-new items in our store and keep it full.
Each meeting, you will have the chance to earn tickets. Those tickets are what you use to purchase items from the MOPShop.
The idea behind our ticket incentive program is to build responsibility and maturity in our moms. Large items have large “price” tags on them. If you really want something, its always worth waiting, saving up and then buying it with the tickets you have in hand. If you always spend your tickets as soon as you get them, you will always go home with something new, but you will go home with something small.
The same concepts apply to life. Saving cash and using a savings account, not using credit cards and not getting into financial debt is a lesson to learn early rather than late.
Ways to earn Tickets:
Teen MOPS Calendar
Mon. Nov. 24: Card Stamping Party!!! Mon. Dec. 8: Christmas Story, Cookie exchange, and a Christmas craft Mon. Dec. 29: Teen MOPS Social, CPR certification at Jefferson Fire Station? We are still open to new applicants, please join us at 5PM and bring a friend!
Next meeting on Monday, Nov. 10th: Make and take home a casserole!
